So high as heaved the tumid hills.
Milton.
3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic;
falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.
— Tu"mid*ly, adv. — Tu"mid*ness, n.
Tu*mid"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tumid.
Tum"mals (?), n. (Mining) A great quantity or heap. Weale.
Tu"mor (?), n. [L., fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. tumeúr. See Tumid.] 1.
(Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the
body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a
neoplasm.
2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false
magnificence or sublimity. [R.]
Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor
and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result
from the modern vice of English style.
De Quincey.
Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst,
connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular
substance. — Fatty tumor. See under Fatty. — Innocent tumor, or Benign
tumor, one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually
tend to recur after extirpation. — Malignant tumor, a tumor which tends
continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the
body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself,
causes death.
Tu"mored (?), a. Distended; swelled. [R.] "His tumored breast." R.
Junius.